Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Equinox Moonlight Shadows

"Under the harvest moon,When the soft
silverDrips shimmeringOver the garden
nights,Death, the gray mocker,Comes and whispers to
youAs a beautiful friendWho
remembers."- Carl Sandburg, Under the Harvest
Moon

"In that open fieldIf you do not
come too close, if you do not come too close,On a summer midnight, you can
hear the musicOf the weak pipe and the little drumAnd see them dancing
around the bonfireThe association of man and womanIn daunsinge,
signifying matrimonie—A dignified and commodiois sacrament.Two and two,
necessarye coniunction,Holding eche other by the hand or the armWhiche
betokeneth concorde. Round and round the fireLeaping through the flames, or
joined in circles,Rustically solemn or in rustic laughterLifting heavy
feet in clumsy shoes,Earth feet, loam feet, lifted in country mirthMirth
of those long since under earthNourishing the corn. Keeping time,Keeping
the rhythm in their dancingAs in their living in the living seasonsThe
time of the seasons and the constellationsThe time of milking and the time
of harvestThe time of the coupling of man and womanAnd that of beasts.
Feet rising and falling.Eating and drinking. Dung and death.Dawn points, and another
dayPrepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn windWrinkles and
slides. I am hereOr there, or elsewhere. In my
beginning."- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, East
Coker No. 2, 1, 1940

September Equinox in Redding, California, U.S.A. is
onSunday, September 22, 2013 at 1:44 PM
PDT